Enjoy For Free Hadrian Articulated By Joël Schmidt Released Through Printable Format

as sitelinkRobert Graves did in sitelinkI, Claudius this story purports to be an autobigraphy as told by a roman emporer, While that worked well for sitelinkRobert Graves, this effort is of a feebler nature, It felt episodic but without the dramatic highlights that the earlier series had,

While this does a workmanlike job of presenting the historic facts there isn't a lot that makes us care very deeply for any of these characters.
The novel does give one a sense of some of the events and issues of the day but it fails to be compelling,

I think that there's still room in the story for a better book with more character development and perhaps some dramatic invention to entertain us and leave us with a better image of Hadrian and Antinuous, just as Shakespeare's Julius Caesar left room for Showtimes ROME.
I'm not suggesting that Shakespeare's tale was anything less than great, but a new fresh perspective can often add dramtaic details that the original didn't feature, Second century Roman Emporer Hadrian tells his life story: from his boyhood through

his young manhood with its sexual and spiritual initiations, to mature adulthood and his accension to imperial power after Trajan's death.
Highlighted is his intense love affair with the handsome Bithynian adolescent Antinoüs, .